Mysteries of Laos: What is the Plain of Jars?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Over in Southeast Asia, the landlocked nation of Laos remains one of the least-explored areas in the region, even today. And those few outsiders fortunate to travel to this country may encounter a mystery that's baffled investigators for centuries (if not millennia): What is the Plain of Jars? What could have inspired ancient civilizations to build hundreds upon hundreds of giant, stone jars out in northern Laos? Why did the US government spend so much time planting bombs in the area?
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.9 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:12.1 | A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:27.2 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:28.1 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:28.9 | They call me Ben. |
| 0:30.2 | We are joined as always with our super producer Andrew Triforce Howard. |
| 0:34.7 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:36.7 | You are here. That makes this the stuff they |
| 0:39.9 | don't want you to know featuring Triforce's cat Astrid. We love mysteries. We hope you |
| 0:46.4 | dig mysteries as well. Tonight's episode takes us across the Pacific to southeastern Asia, |
| 0:54.0 | specifically to a place most people do not visit |
| 0:57.0 | Laos. |
| 0:58.5 | A bit of a history mystery, huh? |
| 1:00.9 | Oh, yes. |
| 1:01.6 | Scooby and the gang would be on board. |
| 1:03.9 | Oh, and it's an exciting one because there's so much stuff to ponder within this topic. |
| 1:08.9 | And there's a lot of history for us to discuss as well, just as Ben |
| 1:12.8 | is alluding to just with the history of the country and especially with the United States |
| 1:17.3 | involvement. History. Yes. Just so. The recent history of Laos is intensely troubled. And we'll |
| 1:26.8 | get into that as well. Most Americans in the crowd tonight, |
| 1:31.3 | if you think a Laos, you're probably thinking of it through the lens of the Vietnam War. |
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